Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
TACITUSThis I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
More Tacitus Quotes
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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Christianity is a pestilent superstition.
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Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
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In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
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Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
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Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
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All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
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